Minimum Cost Climbing Stairs

Problem

Given the price of stepping on each stair, find the minimum cost to reach the top.

Examples

Example 1

Input: [10,15,20]

Output: 15

Example 2

Input: [1,100,1,1,1,100,1,1,100,1]

Output: 6

Input and output use JSON-compatible values. For linked-list and tree questions, arrays represent the node structure as described above. Your code should implement solve(input).

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Compiler

How to solve Minimum Cost Climbing Stairs

Given the price of stepping on each stair, find the minimum cost to reach the top. You may start at step 0 or 1 and move up one or two. The reference implementation illustrates this approach; check the example and edge cases.

Time and space complexity

O(n) time and O(1) space.

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